PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4f86e11e6197dee3

MALICIOUS

PDF

8.5 KB

MD5: 7ae21de47d9222cc430d8bb18db4a08d SHA-1: ed291dc4db295323b01c2c0455036b63153a86d8 SHA-256: 4f86e11e6197dee3ceb10f4d1b4ee822f4b9fc4c1aef481e1d56fa41dc88cf7d

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188. This exploit targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of TIFF images within XFA forms, allowing for arbitrary code execution. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is likely the payload for this exploit.

Heuristics 4

Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188

PDF contains XFA image data with an inline crafted TIFF payload and shellcode/delivery markers. This is the data-bound variant of the CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader LibTIFF/XFA exploit shape.
Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED

PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE

One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `ce013869f41842198ad5843af21e1e6eec0e84e1dab1c759658ab335d1d98cda`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x58	13345 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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